Sometimes Laurenson or Edward L. Lawrenson A Dublin-born landscape painter and etcher, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he first soldiered with the Connaught Rangers per his family tradition, leaving the army in 1900 to study art in Paris. He studied under Colarossi, Mucha, and in Holland, the American artist, George Hitchcock. He exhibited regularly at the RA from 1907 to 1934 and at the RHA between 1900 and 1934. He designed the one of the first commemorative postage stamps of the Irish Free State to mark the opening of the SShannon Barrage in 1930. (http://whytes.ie/Irish-Art/2artistsbiog.asp?surname=Lawrenson&firstnames=Edward%20Louis) ...For a time he worked in Colarossi's atelier, and afterwards he attended a small private class directed by Mucher, the poster-painter. Mucher's method was to draw, in the presence of his pupils, a whole nude figure, explaining as he proceeded how each individual part should be drawn, and teaching scientifically how to look for beauty in odd proportions. Having learnt all that he could from this teaching, Laurenson went next to Holland, to the village of Egmond, where he studied landscape painting with George Hitchcock. Although he works a great deal in the large studio at 20 Holland Park Road, finishing there his canvases, or biting and printing his etchings and aquatints, his still more workaday studio is his motor-car. To many a happy painting-ground has it taken him, both on the Continent and in England, and many a pleasing picture has he enjoyed painting in it, while countless are the sketches and color-notes he has made in that peripatetic studio, with the changing skies overhead. It was, I believe, Laurenson sitting in his motor-car with his friend Harold Speed, both busily painting on a country road, that suggested F. H. Townshend's "Punch" drawing of The Lazy Artists. But Laurenson is far from a "lazy artist"; he is, on the contrary... (http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/painting/laurenson/index.html) undefined

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